Re: reexecuting prelink

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, William Lovaton wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I installed FC3 a few days ago and I'm very happy to see all the
> improvements.
> 
> About after an hour of my first boot I noticed a proccess in background
> taking up the CPU for a long time.  It was 'prelink' (via crond??).
> Checking the man page says that it prelinks all the binary libraries and
> programs for faster startup times and lower memory consumption.  It
> worked really nice.
> 
> It also says that it should be executed again if a program or library
> has been updated (yum, apt?) or else it will use the traditional linking
> again slowing down startup speed.
> 
> Does that mean that after a big update I should run it again??  What can
> I do to relaunch that job? (I dont remember the parameters).  Is that in
> cron or something??

The prelink cron job runs once everyday - so you don't have to worry
about running it manually.

If you want to run this manually - run the script '/etc/cron.daily/prelink'

Satish